Even though I feel somewhat familiar with most Internet culture, I've never come across the Bad Apple meme, and I've just spent a good hour down the YouTube rabbit hole watching variations of Bad Apple. Fantastic stuff

Part of the reason why it became such a cultural phenomenon is the permissive license governing the use of the characters:

https://touhou.fandom.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki:Copyrights

Just a warning, getting into Touhou PVs is a good way to lose a month.

It's a convenient double-reference, given Apple's history of well-known font-rendering exploits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16177535

compute + input + visual output: can it run DOOM? visual output: can it animate Bad Apple?